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Modelling human behaviour in coupled human and natural systems [PDF]
, 2019 Humans have a major impact on what the world looks like today. The challenge for modern humans is to counter the undesirable changes that affect our collective well-being, such as climate change, land degradation and rapid decline of global biodiversity.
K. Koning
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Coupled human and natural systems approach to wildlife research and conservation [PDF]
Ecology and Society, 2014 Conserving wildlife while simultaneously meeting the resource needs of a growing human population is a major sustainability challenge. As such, using combined social and environmental perspectives to understand how people and wildlife are interlinked ...
Neil H. Carter +6 more
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Integrating social science into empirical models of coupled human and natural systems
Ecology and Society, 2017 Coupled human and natural systems (CHANS) research highlights reciprocal interactions (or feedbacks) between biophysical and socioeconomic variables to explain system dynamics and resilience.
Jeffrey D. Kline +7 more
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Coupled Human and Natural Systems: A Novel Framework for Complexity Management
SustainabilityCoupled human and natural systems (CHANS) represent dialectic interaction between human and nature subsystems. This dynamic interaction involves a prominent level of complexity stemming from the uncertain interrelation between the systems and the ...
D. Perera, Z. Abunada, Ahmed AlQabany
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Information and entropy theory for the sustainability of coupled human and natural systems [PDF]
Ecology and Society, 2014 For coupled human and natural systems (CHANS), sustainability can be defined operationally as a feasible, desirable set of flows (material, currency, information, energy, individuals, etc.) that can be maintained despite internal changes and changes in ...
Audrey L. Mayer +2 more
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Ecosystem Health and SustainabilityUnderstanding the interaction patterns of coupled human and natural systems (CHANS) is essential for sustainable urban development. However, existing studies have often failed to categorize interaction patterns based on variations in CHANS, which may ...
Kaiping Wang +6 more
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Water Resources ResearchIn recent years, flood risk in urban areas has been rapidly increasing due to unsustainable urban development, changes of hydrological processes and frequent occurrence of extreme weather events.
Haoyang Qin +3 more
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Ecology and Society, 2014 Landscape characteristics affect human-wildlife interactions. However, there is a need to better understand mechanisms that drive those interactions, particularly feedbacks that exist between wildlife-related impacts, human reaction to and behavior as a
Anita T. Morzillo +2 more
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Frontiers in Water, 2021 Some of the most persistent challenges facing society and the environment arise from an intricate coupling of natural and human systems (CNHS). These challenges resist traditional expert-driven problem-solving approaches and require a careful synthesis ...
Kevin M. Smith +4 more
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